The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-05

I yet, throughout all this religious de-
basement and moral obliquity, we see
shown forth, it may be family, the rev.
erential, religions, yet superstitious ma
ture Of man.
All things created are governed by
law. Neither star nor planet can vary
at will the orbit it travels in. Lack of
order is the beginning of ruin and de-
| cay. The degree of order and system
distinguishes the higher from the lower
scales, or order of being. No. power
can disarrange that system OF order
without injury. nor reverse the de-
| cislons of universal law without de-
struction. We may understand but
little OF the workings of the universe,
yet our every act and every faculty We
are possessed of IS subject to that law.
Ii we transgress it in any of its pro-
visions, the consequences entailed by
departure from right course are bound
to follow and we have to accept the
reward our own acts have won Tor US.
No plea of ignorance can save us; we
have sinned against physical law and
we must suffer. When we break
physical law, we physically have to an
swer for it-no lack of wisdom is an ex-
cuse, nor can we avoid the results be
they beneficial or disastrous. The deli
cate organism of the M suffers when
ever its tabernacle is Cened OF, de-
based. and if the chann1. of thought
are turned into swamps O. idleness, or
morains of selfshness its waters be-
come muddy and stagnant and deadly.
The connection between the physical
and the moral world are 30 intimate
SO closely are their duties allied and re-
ciprocal that we can transgress no rule
of living, no law appertaining to life or
thought without the result of our acts
following US throughout every portion
of our future career.
Accepting Biblical chronology as cor
rect, the world was four thousand years
in advancing to the enlightenment cul-
minating in the teachings of Jesus.
Though professedly the people Of God
= His chosen seed - by whom and
through whom all nations and tongues
and peoples were to be blessed-the
Jews had a superintendent combination
of all the cruelties and barbarisms of
Pagan and heather nations. These
joined to the Hypocrisy, the fanaticism
and blooOdthirstiness of reVerential
claims upon the promised favor and
blessings of the Almighty, made them
terrible bosom of destruction to all
who fell into their power and believed
not as they did, Their bigoted claims
of being the chosen instrument of pun
ishment to others, while f1attering to
their national vanity. was fendish as
often exercised, and paved the way for
their own destruction. and the oft times
terrible scourgings they received. In
the darkness of their Interpretation of
the revelations of God they would STAY
an enemy-even whole nations of peo-
pie in the name of God-chanting His
praise and extolling His power, mercies,
goodness and charities to themselves in
every act of Staying others-with,th he like
fanatical fervor that Thug of India,
century ago, would strangle the passing
traveller in the name of, and as an offer
ing to his goddess Bowanne. The He
brew sense of Justice and mercy, in the
ages of the prophets, extended not be-
yond, nor outside the boundaries of ma
'tionality. All other people were looked
upon by them, as under the curse and
ban, subject to the condemnation of
God, as Gentiles and sinners; and they
alone, who were of the seed of Abra-
ham, to whom such mighty promises had
been made were legitimate heirs to the
hills and Yallies, with their countless
f1ocks and herds, as we'll as to the gold
and silver, fine linen and the treasures
of the whole earth. Such was their be-
liefs, to such had their teachings led,
and to such furious cruelty had
their own prosecutions and the
universal cruelty of nations edu-
Gated them, So much was this their
view that had they been gifted with cor
responding power, it is likely they
would have carried out the entire pro-
gramne of destruction in bloody
practice to its fullest and most unrelent-
ing extent to the determination of other
nations. But God was more merciful
than they. and the boastful pride of
conquest was time and again followed
by internal CONFUSION and national